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“Impeach Obama”? Did I say that? What I did say was: IF working to elect Democrats had no measurable effect, then something else is needed. Local community organizing, perhaps; marching in the streets ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/… ).
Fact is, the problems have not been effectively addressed in a timely manner. People find themselves discussing Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann–a glorious waste of time merely to type in the second ‘n’.
Was your comment meant to contribute to thinking about how to address the set of crises in which we are mired? If so, it didn’t come across as such, at least not to me. But then, I hate surprises.
IMPEACH HIM!!! HE ISN”T FDR!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N…
No, just no. The very first act of the New Deal was a banking subsidy written by the Hoover administration. Then there were some stimulus programs. A lot of what we think of today as the New Deal was passed after 1934.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…
Then there’s the fact that Roosevelt had Democratic majorities of 72% in the House and 63% in the Senate, and the Senate filibuster hardly existed at the time.
http://100days.blogs.nytimes.c…
Contrast this with the hundreds of filibusters over literally every nontrivial issue in the Senate today, and you see Obama has a somewhat harder path than Roosevelt (whose Congress passed everything he asked for, no questions asked).
Either way, being President carries some unfair burdens. My strong sense is that Obama is a “consensus-builder” who [insists on building a bipartisan consensus] or [allows 40 Republicans to block forward progress]–your choice.
No surprise that Obama hoped to calm the waters and get past the slug-fest atmosphere of the preceding two years. Also no surprise that Republicans were not eager to go along.
Fact remains that we are, in large degree, at an impasse in Congress, and that Obama is the only political figure to have been elected by all the people. The crises are large and require a certain pace of change lest they overwhelm the society. We look to the President for solutions, not just efforts.
There are available tools–including changing parliamentary procedure in the Senate–that have not been utilized, or even proposed! My strong sense is that Obama’s well-known patience in developing a consensus–I’m referring to anecdotes from his days as chairman of Harvard Law Review–has been given a chance and now needs to be abandoned in favor of rough-neck, heavy-handed, get-out-of-our-way-before-we-run-over-you tough-guy techniques. Can’t let Harry “Health care legislation may go into next year” Reid’s re-election problems stand in the way of passing legislation NOW.
If that does not happen, for whatever reason, then Obama will have failed to take charge and get started on effective solutions. The why matters not; it’s the what that counts. We don’t have time to wait and wait and wait any longer!
Progressives should start considering other approaches, not just other politicians. It may be that the existing system has proven incapable of delivering needed solutions.
but you didn’t really answer any of my objections. I think you write thoughtful posts sometimes, but this one looks like someone sticking fingers in her ears and saying, “la la la.”
Social Security and Medicare did not pass in the first year of anyone’s term.
Nobody’s telling you to wait for the sake of waiting. Just don’t ignore the really big things that ARE happening.
I didn’t address details of the New Deal, and when various programs were passed, mostly because (a) I didn’t want to take the time to research one set of 100 days vs another set; and (b) because I think that sort of detailed comparison of what bills passed when under FDR vs BHO are not entirely to the point. Different circumstances altogether, etc. That said, of course it was I who made the comparison in the first place, so some answer is required.
Comparisons between the early ’30s and now are liable to be specious, as I readily admit. For example, then there were long, long, visible bread lines that underscored the crisis of an economy lacking most of the basic welfare programs in place today. We don’t see electronic benefit fund transfers taking place; we don’t see clients paying in some special script at the grocery store. What we do see is fleeting headlines (“17.5% Hidden Unemployment”) that will go out with the rest of the trash. Although it was Obama himself who coined the phrase “Urgency of Now,” I was (and am) accusing him of putting that aside in favor of the Importance of Consensus. Therein lies a big difference between Obama and Roosevelt. FDR recognized class warfare at its height and, in effect, declared: Bring it on! Obama’s approach: Let’s solve this together. My observation: Republicans don’t want to play, don’t want to solve the problems, and need to be shoved aside.
Finally, what is going on? What was the nature of the crisis of, say, September ’08-March ’09? One answer: major financial institutions were teetering at the edge of insolvency, threatening a much larger and prolonged crisis in the underlying economy. Another answer: the American economy had become unbalanced by the growth of largely unregulated financial institutions and an unprecedented shift of wealth to the top 1-2% of the population. If you prefer the first answer, then an infusion of short-term liquidity was needed and delivered. Good job. If you prefer the second answer, then nothing much has happened.
Of course, I agree that we should be careful about putting too much emphasis on Goldman Sachs and ongoing symbols, such as GS receiving a shipment of swine flu vaccine while health clinics serving the public say “Wait.” (BTW, check out the London Times interview with the CEO of GS; it’s pretty chilling. “I’m doing God’s work. Wow. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t… Credit to Huffington for pointing it out.)
BUT, I would submit that the rapid restoration of mega-bonuses at Goldman and elsewhere don’t play well in Peoria. They contribute to a notion that Tim Geithner jumped in save the Good Ship Sachs, but that little was done to save millions of households facing individual financial catastrophe–Trickle Down at its worst, and so far, ain’t much has trickled anywhere besides into the bank accounts of the Favored Few.
Perceptions like that have a nasty way of turning into reality, and the mandate of Hope and Yes We Can is vulnerable to the despair of Hopeless and No We Couldn’t.
It looks like health-care is about to pass the house – this is way further than it has ever come before. Maybe he does know what he’s doing.
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